Thanks people for all the thoughts on Aussie places to live.
We're still thinking about moving but it would be a really big effort and seeing as I have more work already this year than last year things are actually looking better for us financially (strange huh in the Recession).
I read in the news paper yesterday that on average there are 1000 people a day going to Aus from NZ(there are of course people coming back too). Many of them are recent immigrants here anyway who seem to treat NZ as a transit stop on the way to Aus.
Last year I think there were 44 000 people moved to Aus for short (long holiday?) term or long term and 13 000 came back to stay.